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“She could have a million things going on, but if I’m asking her about, like, ‘I’m worried about my son’s binky,’ she’ll sit there and talk to me for however long, walk me through it, as if it’s the most important thing in the world,” Song says.

“Maybe because he let you watch Binky Bunnies when he did it.”

Cat still knew the words to the Binky Bunnies theme song, not that she would admit it.

Since the white raven soared into the city this fall, it has quickly entered the ranks of legendary Anchorage animals — joining, among others, Buzzwinkle the moose, Star the reindeer, and Binky the polar bear.

At a neighborhood barbecue, other women speak in an unfamiliar vocabulary: “Do you need a Boppy? A binky? Do you have a Tommee Tippee? A Boon Orb?”